# Kate Soper > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kate_Soper > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kate_Soper.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Soper > Source revision: 1326288722 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British philosopher (born 1943) For the composer, see [Kate Soper (composer)](/source/Kate_Soper_(composer)). Kate Soper Born 1943 (age 82–83) Alma mater University of Oxford (BA); Sussex University (PhD) Occupation Philosopher **Kate Soper** (born 1943) is a British [philosopher](/source/Philosopher).[1] She is currently Visiting Professor at the [University of Brighton](/source/University_of_Brighton).[2] ## Background Soper was educated at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) (BA) and worked as a translator and journalist. Her PhD was from [Sussex University](/source/Sussex_University) titled *Marxism and the Theory of Needs*. She taught at Sussex University, before moving in 1987 to the [University of North London](/source/University_of_North_London) (which became part of [London Metropolitan University](/source/London_Metropolitan_University) in 2002). She taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in European Studies and Literature and Modernity. She retired c.2009, becoming Emeritus Professor. ## Contributions Soper is the author of and contributor to over a dozen books on [feminism](/source/Feminism) and [Continental Philosophy](/source/Continental_Philosophy), addressing the works of [Jean-Paul Sartre](/source/Jean-Paul_Sartre), [Karl Marx](/source/Karl_Marx) and [Simone de Beauvoir](/source/Simone_de_Beauvoir), among others. Her other contributions have been to consumption theory and environmental philosophy. She is a critic of post-structuralist feminism. She has also translated several texts into English, including includes Chiodi's *Sartre And Marxism*, [Sebastiano Timpanaro](/source/Sebastiano_Timpanaro)'s *The Freudian Slip*, [Bobbio](/source/Norberto_Bobbio)'s *[Liberalism and Democracy](/source/Liberalism_and_Democracy)* (with Martin Ryle), and (with Martin Ryle) Ginzburg's *Wooden Eyes*.[2] She has been involved in several [environmentalist](/source/Environmentalism) and peace movements in both the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) and the rest of [Europe](/source/Europe) and her writing addresses radical [ecological](/source/Ecology) issues.[3][4] Her contributions have appeared in the journals *[Radical Philosophy](/source/Radical_Philosophy)*, *[New Left Review](/source/New_Left_Review)* and *[Capitalism, Nature, Socialism](/source/Capitalism%2C_Nature%2C_Socialism)*. In 1998, Soper interviewed [Noam Chomsky](/source/Noam_Chomsky). Her study of the role that new thinking about pleasure and the "good life" can play in promoting sustainable consumption (*Alternative hedonism and the theory and politics of consumption*) was funded in the ESRC/AHRC "Cultures of Consumption" Programme in the mid-2000s.[5][6] Her other work includes radio and television appearances (*Dinner with Portillo*, Channel Five, December 2005: Radio 3, *[Nightwaves](/source/Nightwaves)*, April 2004), and a number of exhibitions.[7] ## Selected works - Soper K. 2020. *Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism.* Verso. - Soper K., L. Thomas and M. Ryle (eds.). 2009. *The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently*. Palgrave. - Soper K. and F Trentmann (eds.). 2008. *Citizenship and Consumption*. Palgrave. - Soper K., and M. Ryle. 2001. *To Relish the Sublime: Culture and Self-realisation in Postmodern Times*. Verso. - Soper K. 1995. *What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human.* Blackwell. - Soper K. 1990. *Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism*. Verso. - Soper K. 1986. *Humanism and Anti-Humanism* (Problems of Modern European Thought). Hutchinson. - Soper K. 1981. *On Human Needs*. Harvester. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Kate Soper"](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/soper-kate). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 11 March 2021. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-brightonacuk_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-brightonacuk_2-1) ["Prof Kate Soper"](http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/kate-soper).[Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180615032148/http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/kate-soper) 15 June 2018 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [*Kate Soper - "Eco-criticism and the Politics of Prosperity"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn6LVB3s4dI), 31 October 2011, [archived](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Xn6LVB3s4dI) from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 21 April 2021 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Soper, Kate (30 November 2010). ["Humanities can promote alternative 'good life'"](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/nov/30/humanities-promote-alternative-good-life). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 21 April 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Cultures of Consumption Research Programme"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201109023911/http://www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/). *www.consume.bbk.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](http://www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/) on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Kate Soper: How does our work ethic impact the environment?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnYg4SVBSw). 17 November 2017. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/mYnYg4SVBSw) from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021 – via YouTube. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [*An Alternative to the World? Consumption and the Dialectics of Development*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHQLxiuksM), retrieved 21 April 2021[*[dead YouTube link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*] ## External links - [A list of contributions to *Radical Philosophy*](http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/author/kate-soper) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Czech Republic Netherlands Latvia Israel Other IdRef Open Library Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kate Soper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Soper) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Soper?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.